[AndrewBartelt]

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Very frustratingly I got my activation code but now can't find it. Does anyone know what their senders e-mail address is so that I can try to find it that way....

[dmyers]

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So it's an app that has access to and is able to read and process the text in all your emails. It requires server space/resources for every user they take on? But it's free? How are my privacy interests remotely aligned with their future monetisation interests? I wouldn't fall in love with this app too much until I know how they're going to be selling my data later.

Gmail, which is the only provider it uses... has access to, is able to read and process all of your email, requires server space and resources for every user they take on, and is free...

So again explain to me how your privacy is of paramount concern to you and you think that your data is going to provide them monetary gains?

Sorry this privacy stuff is just way overblown, if you're so concerned about your "private data" why are you on Facebook?

Lots of startups offer free services simply because they are looking for the big buyout or adding features down the line which would be premium and at a cost.

I just don't get the whole privacy thing people are throwing out, read the company/apps privacy policy, if you don't agree with it, don't use the app. Simple as that.

No one owes you an explanation on how they plan to make a profit on their business, if they decide they want to start selling whatever data they could gain from their service, they would have to update their privacy policies, and you would be notified of it, at that point you could stop using it, or continue on with life...

[BigDaddyQB]

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Does it support Gmail's Labels? It does, but in a specific manner. You can move messages to lists that are labelled. You can add/customize the lists, which are then all sublists under the label [Mailbox]. I think this will be more or less fine. I just started using the app, but if I find that I really like it, I will probably re-jigger some of my existing Gmail labels to match the Mailbox labels.

Interesting. So if you work with these lists, how do they persist back to Gmail? In other words, if I make some lists changes, additions, whatever, what do I see when I view those same messages through Gmail's web interface via the desktop?

[TruFoo]

If you haven't already, give Sparrow a try. I've been using it for at least 2 yrs and love it. Cheers.

[ulidelafuente679]

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Does it support Gmail's Labels?

It does but in a different manner. You can do this by placing all your labels under the app-created label [Mailbox] and still place emails under those labels. The goal of the app is to get people away from label use and trust the search function in Gmail. Although some users may not agree this workaround for the label use is still plausible within the app so you don't have to stop using labels!

[peter-rock]

This really is a terrible recommendation! How can an App that supports just one provider, Google, get 4.5 stars?! Recommending this replaces the standard mail App is a terrible position for MacWorld to take. Is there a kick-back from Google to MacWorld at play here?

[halfdanhansen]

Got my activation today for Mailbox but app wouldn't let me add an email account unless I turned on All Mail in IMAP If I do this then my mac mail client will download all 30,000+ emails in my gmail account and I just don't want this. Is there anyway I can leave IMAP turned on in gmail but stop mac mail from importing all those emails?

[halfdanhansen]

Got my activation today for Mailbox but app wouldn't let me add an email account unless I turned on All Mail in IMAP If I do this then my mac mail client will download all 30,000+ emails in my gmail account and I just don't want this. Is there anyway I can leave IMAP turned on in gmail but stop mac mail from importing all those emails?

[halfdanhansen]

So mailbox support got back to me and said the app definitely needs All Mail turned on in imap, so my next question is, is there anyway to 'hack' or a plugin for mail.app to allow control down to the folder level of the imap sync process. i.e. can I somehow modify mail.app so that it will allow normal operation with all my other gmail imap foilders, but will 'ignore' the All Mail folder?

[halfdanhansen]

I found this hack which appears to work so far - I created soft links in terminal to force mail.app to ignore the All Mail folder.


http://hints.macworl...030423151243538

Create a link to /dev/null in place of the folder you want to ignore. For example, say there is an IMAP folder called "WorkOrders" you don't want to read, do the following:
ln -s /dev/null ~/Library/Mail/WorkOrders
Even if you click on the "WorkOrder" IMAP folder, Mail.app does not attempt to read the messages so there is no delay. If you ever decide to want to see the contents of the folder again, simply delete the link and Mail.app will update the contents when you next open the folder.